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In this paper we present new results regarding the periodicity of outer billiards in the hyperbolic plane around polygonal tables which are tiles in regular two-piece tilings of the hyperbolic plane.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-20 FIliz Dogru , Emily Fischer , Cristian Mihai Munteanu

We show that for almost every $(P,\lambda)$ where $P$ is a convex polygon and $\lambda\in(0,1)$, the corresponding outer billiard about $P$ with contraction $\lambda$ is asymptotically periodic, i.e., has a finite number of periodic orbits…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-07-06 José Pedro Gaivão

We study dissipative polygonal outer billiards, i.e. outer billiards about convex polygons with a contractive reflection law. We prove that dissipative outer billiards about any triangle and the square are asymptotically periodic, i.e. they…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-10-18 Gianluigi Del Magno , José Pedro Gaivão , Eugene Gutkin

In this work we address the question of proving the stability of elliptic 2-periodic orbits for strictly convex billiards. Eventhough it is part of a widely accepted belief that ellipticity implies stability, classical theorems show that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sylvie Oliffson Kamphorst , Sonia Pinto de Carvalho

It is known that $C^1$-smooth strictly convex Radon norms in $\mathbb{R}^2$ can be characterized by the property that the outer billiard map, which corresponds to the unit ball of the norm, has an invariant curve consisting of 4-periodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Mark Berezovik , Misha Bialy

Ivrii's Conjecture states that in every billiard in Euclidean space the set of periodic orbits has measure zero. It implies that for every $k\geq2$ there are no k-reflective billiards, i.e., billiards having an open set of k-periodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Corentin Fierobe

In this paper I will unite two games, symplectic billiards and tiling billiards. The new game is called symplectic tiling billiards. I will prove a result about periodic orbits of symplectic tiling billiards in a very special case and then…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Richard Evan Schwartz

We show that smooth and strongly convex bodies in the symplectic $\mathbb R^{2n}$ for $n>1$ with all characteristics planar, or all outer billiard trajectories planar are affine symplectic images of balls.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Roman Karasev , Anastasiia Sharipova

The classical inner and outer billiards can be formulated in variational terms, with length and area as the respective generating functions. The other two combinations, ``inner with area'' and ``outer with length,'' are more recently…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Lael Edwards-Costa

We consider the dual billiard map with respect to a smooth strictly convex closed hypersurface in linear 2m-dimensional symplectic space and prove that it has at least 2m distinct 3-periodic orbits.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Serge Tabachnikov

We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for periodic and for elliptic periodic trajectories of billiards within an ellipse in the Minkowski plane in terms of an underlining elliptic curve. We provide several examples of periodic and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Anani Komla Adabrah , Vladimir Dragovic , Milena Radnovic

We explore the triangle outer billiards map in points at infinity in the hyperbolic plane, focusing on the rotation number. Building on Dogru and Tabachnikov's work, which established the conditions for triangles where the rotation number…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Takeo Noda , Shin-ichi Yasutomi , Masamichi Yoshida

We prove some partial results on the periodicity of billiard systems on graphs. The results specialize to the case of $n$ billiards with equal mass on the unit interval or circle traveling at the same speed.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-12-11 Stephen Michael Miller , Thomas Silverman

The famous conjecture of V.Ya.Ivrii says that {\it in every billiard with infinitely-smooth boundary in a Euclidean space the set of periodic orbits has measure zero}. In the present paper we study its complex analytic version for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-12-18 Alexey Glutsyuk

In this paper we establish a kind of bijection between the orbits of a polygonal outer billiards system and the orbits of a related (and simpler to analyze) system called the pinwheel map. One consequence of the result is that the outer…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-04-26 Richard Evan Schwartz

We study the problem of arithmetic billiards from a new perspective. We first raise a similar problem about reflecting lights inside grids. For the solution to this problem, we will give three proofs. Next, we consider a similar problem in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Yangcheng Li

We show that the second iteration $T^2$ of the outer symplectic billiard map with respect to a convex domain $M$ in a symplectic vector space is approximated by an explicit Hamiltonian flow for points far away from $M$. More precisely,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Peter Albers , Ana Chavez Caliz , Serge Tabachnikov

We give an optical physicist view of the problem of the trajectories in a polygonal billiard using only basic facts of Optics and the theory of functions of a complex variable. This approach allow us to stablish a certain correspondence…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-07-24 Eduardo Díaz-Miguel

We consider billiard trajectories in a smooth convex body in $\mathbb R^d$ and estimate the number of distinct periodic trajectories that make exactly $p$ reflections per period at the boundary of the body. In the case of prime $p$ we…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-07-06 R. N. Karasev

We study self-intersected N-periodics in the elliptic billiard, describing new facts about their geometry (e.g., self-intersected 4-periodics have vertices concyclic with the foci). We also check if some invariants listed in "Eighty New…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Ronaldo Garcia , Dan Reznik